Storming the Heavens : : The Soviet League of the Militant Godless /

Storming the Heavens : : The Soviet League of the Militant Godless / / Daniel Peris.

A member of the first generation of scholars allowed access to formerly closed Soviet archives, Daniel Peris offers a new perspective on the Bolshevik regime's antireligious policy from 1917 until 1941. He focuses on the activities of the League of the Militant Godless, the organization founded...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Peris, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1998
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • 1. Making Holy Russia Godless: Policies, Confusion, and Cadres, 1917-1925
  • 2. Organized Atheism in the 1920s
  • 3. Soviet Atheism?
  • 4. “The Battle against Religion Is the Battle for Socialism”
  • 5. The League of the Godless in Iaroslavl' and Pskov, 1926-1933
  • 6. The League of the Godless, the Communist Party, and Bolshevik Political Culture
  • 7. “Cadres Decide Everything”
  • 8. The Second Coming? The League of the Godless in the Late 1930s
  • Epilogue and Conclusion
  • Selected Primary Sources
  • Index

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